KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Streetcar Authority is hoping to add two new cars to the near one-year-old line after ridership has far exceeded expectations. It would cost about $11 million per new car. They say ridership has nearly tripled their initial projections, and it will take more streetcars to keep up with demand.

KCMO meant to say 6,800 monthly. Maybe... It is a disaster and they can't/won't admit it. Detroit is rebounding from the crooks that ran it into the ground. KCMO is driving into the black hole rapidly. Remember who will buy these new bonds. Probably KCMO pension funds. Fake assets buying false security. KCMO IS BROKE ALREADY! You don't borrow money when you can't pay what you owe.

Here's what the city should do, but they won't. They should ask every employer with 50 or more employees along the current and proposed streetcar route to give them a zip code count of where their employees live. Then merge all those numbers together and get a zip code count of where people who work along the streetcar route actually live. If the numbers show that most of them live outside the streetcar route in Gladstone, Independence, Overland Park,Brookside, Waldo etc., then it would prove that very few people would ever ride the streetcar to work. If it's not going to be used for transportation to get people to jobs, it's a worthless tourist expense.

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